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  Updated: December 15, 2005

Eleven awarded life sentence for Gujarat riot

By: Nizam Hussain

NEW DELHI, India: 11 people were sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in the Indian state of Gujarat for killing 11 Muslims during religious riots in 2002.

Four innocent women and five children were among the victims who were thrown into two wells by a Hindu mob.

Only a handful of cases have been brought to court following the riots. Fewer still have ended in convictions.

Gujarat police and local authorities have been heavily criticized for failing to come to the help of victims during the violence, which was among the worst in India since partition in 1947.

The violence broke out after 60 Hindus were killed when a train Sabarmati Express was attacked in Godhra, by unknown mob.

How the blaze in which the Hindus died started is not clear.

An interim inquiry conducted by the rail ministry concluded that the fire was an accident.


 
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